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CH446

Author's note

It's probably thursday somewhere in the world so try not to mind how early this is going up and enjoy!

Waking up the next day, he was tight in Thera’s grasp as he let himself enjoy the feeling of a lazy morning for the first time in a week. He still had a couple of days until it was time for his test at the library and he was content to take things a bit easier until then given all he’d done, both with helping so many awaken or level their m...

CH445

“Don’t gloat,” Uliel warned back in Amy’s home while Vasta was beaming.

“And you don’t be jealous. You’re getting levels from the towers at least, meanwhile, I’m stuck practicing the best I can for all of mine while trying to teach someone who doesn’t even want to learn. Let me enjoy this,” The non-affinity mage shot back, even if that was no longer the most accurate thing to call her for the fact that she was no longer the only one in the world with the skill. There...

CH444

<FINE MOTOR CONTROL LEVEL INCREASED>

<PUPPETRY LEVEL INCREASED>

<ABSOLUTE THOUGHT SPEED LEVEL INCREASED>

Another done.

Each day the line got shorter as he and the two soul mages worked on the task they’d taken, artificially pushing people beyond the limits of their skills to bring them to greater heights than the majority would ever reach alone.

The first twenty, the plant mages, had been the hardest by far. The need to force each of ...

CH443

“I am still so insanely jealous,” Jake sighed as he watched Ben work as they all waited for the day to begin. There was a line of hundreds waiting out the door of Elvat’s terrestrial residence to be let in, all to grasp the unbelievable opportunity that had been spread around the world so urgently. The fact that there was someone who could help awaken certain eighth-level magics.

Both Elvat and Yuzu were doing their all to prepare themselves the best they could. Despite the power ...

CH442

“Um, so aunt Lux, aunt Funa, what was all of that about back at the beginning?” Thera asked, bringing up the question that Ben found himself deeply curious about as well, only to get shakes of their heads as Lux ran her fingers through Thera’s hair.

“Don’t worry about it sweetheart, it will only stress you out. God’s above, it’s already stressing me out.”

“We’ll have to talk to Abrus,” Funa agreed. “And when she said four, it must be-”

“It has to ...

Update

So with this we come to an end for the extra monday chapters with five of them getting squeezed out. Not too bad if I do say so myself and hopefully enough to make up for anything I might miss in the coming month with my family officially coming down in a couple days. Just a reminder, there is one day I’m guaranteed to be missing which will be tuesday september 12th so hope that doesn’t catch anyone by surprise. Other than that, Hope you all have a great day!

CH441

“Did we take the wrong gate?” Thera muttered as they passed through, seeing the strange view beyond.

It was a question Ben was asking himself as well, even though he knew it couldn’t be the case. It was clearly marked before they went in, something he couldn’t have missed, but still he couldn’t help but wonder if there’d been some sort of mistake.

The last time they’d been through, the entrance had led into what had seemed like a pretty standard forest. Strangely lac...

CH440

“So, is Ben okay?” Pelenia asked over dinner, watching as he shakily shovelled greens into his mouth, all while Thera kept healing him from the side.

“Just a little anemic is all,” He told her, giving an unsteady thumbs up as Thera blushed and apologized again.

“I’m sorry, I guess I just kind of lost myself there.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine, I asked for it after all.”

The day ended with dozens of failures, not one viable homunculus to their name, with...

CH439

“So, did you find anything good in the library?” He asked as they ate, enjoying what a nearby cafe had to offer just outside the gigantic library.

“An interesting book on combining my dark magic with my earth. A lot of the suggestions involved using it the same way I would my earth healing spell, making it so a given area will keep debuffing anyone in it or doing something like filling an area with a fear effect to keep animals and people away so either of those could be handy. Ot...

CH438

“I’m afraid you’ll have to wait about a week and a half,” The librarian told him apologetically. “The head librarian is out right now but I can schedule a time for when they’re back if that works for you?”

“Uh, sure, sounds good.”

He felt himself deflate with the news but there was nothing he could do about it, so instead he just gave his thanks and submitted the report Myriad asked him to before going to wander the many shelves.

“You sure you don’t wan...

CH437

Ben was all but humming during dinner, still feeling the change in himself and just how worthwhile it had been going back.

The meeting when he’d returned had drastically shrunk in size as the gods had decided that having everyone there was doing nothing but creating an unproductive atmosphere. Instead, they grouped up their opinions together and selected a representative for each one, leaving him with only six gods other than the ones he was directly familiar with to talk to and work ...

CH436

The notification asking to bring him up went off in his head and Ben let it take him after getting comfortable, closing his eyes and opening them again to find himself around what seemed like a large round table, hundreds of figures there taking a range of forms, all of them looking right at him, various levels of judgment clear in their gazes.

On either side of him, he had the two gods he was closest to, both Myriad and Helori, and he pushed his mind speed skills to ensure he’d be in...

CH435

So how are things looking up there? Ben asked as he continued to pat Sachel’s head, waiting for her to calm down.

<Chaotic. The majority didn’t even bother paying attention because they expected a failure. Now that you’ve succeeded they’re all watching and the implication of what else your success here means is spreading.>

Excellent.

It was an implication that Ben had been aware of from the start. If it was possible to forcibly awaken a plant ...

Poll + Update time

Hey all, happy polling.

So first things first, we passed 500 patrons! Woo, thank you all for the support! It looks like patreon removed the goal section but unfortunately I try to be a turnip of my word so I'll still be giving the reward of an extra 14 chapters no matter how much my little fingers might regret it. Unfortunately I will have to delay doing it till October instead of the beginning of September. I've already mentioned that I'll likely be missing a few days already (hence wh...

CH434

As the rest of them recovered from the mental strain, Ben went to his clothing that was left in a pile off to the side and got dressed as he tried to keep the memories of what he just experienced from flooding him, with thoughts of what sort of sacrilegious acts he’d do to make up for any of what just happened. He may have tried to cheat the trial, but the fact that the gods were willing to put any mortal through something like that was simply going too far.

He didn’t get far in his...

CH433

“Wait there!” He yelled back as he ran, trying to keep anyone from following him as they were all still busy with taking in the empty space around them before reading the sign.

It gave him a few seconds at least, all he needed to put himself at the edge of a small boundary before spinning around, just in time for it to begin to click with the others just what they were being instructed to do.

“Ben!” Thera yelled at him, being cut off before she could say more.

“We�...

Side Story: The watching Grey

“Really, thank you for stopping by but try not to worry,” Wulo, the king of the mole people told Quilith. “We’ve done all we can at this point, now we just need to hope for the best. Besides, I believe you have your own worries, don’t you?”

“Yes, but that can’t put too much of a stop to my work, can it?” The alien said. “Just try to keep safe, would you? Or at least as safe as you can?”

“Ha, it would hurt my pride if I wasn’t going out to fight with the r...

CH432

His minds had already been moving at top speeds so he was the first to react, even if there was little in the way of what he could do. Of the few things he had in his pocket, he’d prepared some poisons, but there were a dozen monsters standing around them, quadrupedal and looking like solid lumps of skin other than the teeth and claws at their disposal, both natural weapons that were more like razors ready to tear into flesh than anything one would normally encounter as he did the first thi...

CH431

Uuughh. Myriad, break the rules and talk to me damn it. I need to complain. Or at least bounce suggestions off someone.

Despite his plea though, no words were whispered in his head, no matter how badly he wanted them.

The four with him were all feeling confident. They really had every right to be confident too given what they’d faced so far, there hadn’t been a single challenge they’d struggled with yet, but Ben still couldn’t help but worry.

There’s t...